the way to solve context switching fatigue isn't to brute force your way through it but to minimize context switching - for instance you can batch similar work into particular days of the week. i interview candidates all day on tuesdays and wednesdays, and do other stuff on other days.
For any seasoned founders out there, how do you get well-adjusted to context switching?
it was fine for me at first, but in recent weeks, its become so much and leads to so much decision paralysis and mental fatigue.
given this glimpse, i will now be maximizing the rate at which I collect delightful glimpses into lives completely different from mine. this glimpse significantly updated my priors on glimpses: glimpses, like everything, are power-law distributed.
@paul_cal Because if what is being typed is just minor permutations of the same stuff over and over, why does all that code exist at all, at tremendous cost to create and maintain? Why not compress it down into just an expression of the small differences in what is needed?
I keep hearing on podcasts all these people raving about how AI is revolutionizing programming and I just don't see it. At all. (I think this may happen eventually, but what is being done right now is not really on the path to it).
Originally I thought, okay, these are just people who don't understand programming saying this stuff. It'll fizzle out once people try it and realize it doesn't work that well. But that was almost 2 years ago and it is still going, and the claims keep getting bigger.
@selphidie “dealing damage” is a also a necessary part of doing anything “real”, imo. The true cost of not dealing damage is that you live in fantasy land/betray yourself. (Take with grain of salt lol, I’ve just been thinking about “what to do” a lot this yr)